Lucy, a young female bonobo, looks over her smorgasbord of fruits, vegetables, greens, and nutritionally complete "primate biscuits" at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. The zoo pays strict attention to the apes' diets, even checking for nutritional suitability by a special software called "Zootrition."Modern zoos do not allow the feeding of the animals because foods like potato chips, bread, candy, chocolate, and pop corn leads to imbalanced diets, and even allergic reactions. In the case of primates, some illnesses such as colds and flu can be transmitted by human handling of food.
Photo by M. Brickner
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